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The Massachuset psalter: or, Psalms of David with the Gospel according to John, in columns of Indian and English. : Being an introduction for training up the aboriginal natives, in reading and understanding the Holy Scriptures

by: unknown

Publication date: 1709

Topics: Massachuset language, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1709

Publisher: Boston, N.E. : Printed by B. Green, and J. Printer, for the Honourable Company for the Propagation of the Gospel in New-England, &c.

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English; Algonquian

Volume: Copy 1

Second title page, facing the English title page reads: Massachusee psalter: asuh, Uk-kuttoohomaongash David weche wunnaunchemookaonk ne ansukhogup John, ut Indiane kah Englishe nepatuhquonkash. Ne woh sogkompagunukhettit kakoketahteaekuppannegk, aketanunnat, kah wohwohtamunat wunnetuppantamwe wussukwhongash, with imprint: Boston, N.E.: Upprinthomunneau B. Green, kah J. Printer, wutche quhtiantamwe chapanukkeg wutche onchekehtouunnat wunnauchummookaonk ut New-England. &c. 1709

Translation by Experience Mayhew based on John Eliot's translation. According to Trumbull "every verse underwent revision and scarcely one remains without some alteration." Cf. ESTC

Signatures: [A] B-3E ([A]1 recto, 3E4 blank)

Printed in parallel columns of Massachuset and English

Errata: p. [406]

Sabin

Evans

Pilling, J.C. Algonquian languages

ESTC

John Carter Brown Library copy 1 imperfect: wanting the Gospel of John, which follows the Psalms

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 1: "Gift of Mr. Joseph Sewall ... to Edw[ar]d Nicholls July the 25th 1711": presentation inscription on front flyleaf

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 imperfect: wanting English and Massachuset title pages and all the Psalms before the very end of Psalm X and all of the Gospel of John after chapter XX

John Carter Brown Library copy 2 bound in contemporary full mottled calf; front board fully detached

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Brown University: bookstamp on recto of first extant page:

Addeddate: 2012-09-28 18:26:58

Associated-names: Eliot, John, 1604-1690; Mayhew, Experience, 1673-1758; Sewall, Joseph, 1688-1769; Nicholls, Edward; Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America; Brown University. Library